[Xastir-dev] radar image suggestion

Curt Mills archer at eskimo.com
Sat Sep 25 23:36:35 EDT 2004


On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Can we engender an automagic gunzip for the radar images?  I can
> experiment with gif/tif/png/jpg and determine the best compression rate,
> then we'd gzip them at generation time, move the compressed image, then
> gunzip at the host?  Is this too much work to ask for now, for a feature
> request?

Dude... I think we can already do that, or at least we can for the
xpm library anyway, perhaps it is in that one automatically.  Not
sure if our ImageMagick code allows that, but we could certainly add
it.

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